Popeye (Aladdin), Olive Oyl (herself/the princess), the genie, the wizard.
Voices: Jack Mercer (Popeye), Margie Hines (Olive Oyl), Carl "Mike" Meyer (the wizard), a Lew Lahr imitator (the genie).
Director: DAVE FLEISCHER. Screenplay: Jack Mercer, Dan Gordon, Cal Howard, Tedd Pierce, Isidore Sparber. Adapted from a tale in The Arabian Nights. Popeye and Olive Oyl based on characters created by Elzie Segar. Photographed in Color by Technicolor by Charles Schettler. Head animator: David Tendlar. Animators: Nicholas Tafuri, William Sturm, Reuben Grossman. Music: Sammy Timberg. Song, "What Can I Do For You?" (Mercer) by Sammy Timberg (music and lyrics). Producer: Max Fleischer.
Copyright 7 April 1939 by Paramount Pictures, Inc. U.S. release: 7 April 1939. 2 reels. 22 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Olive Oyl, a scriptwriter at Surprise Studios, conceives the idea of starring herself and Popeye in a reprise of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.
COMMENT: The third and final of the Fleischer/Popeye 2-reel Technicolor specials, this is my favorite, despite the fact that Wimpy and Bluto don't figure in this one at all. Their absence is more than compensated by a deliciously comic genie and a really sold-out wicked wizard. The pace is so fast, you really have to see the movie two or three times to enjoy all the quips, but even a first time viewing proves a dazzling visual experience as Popeye battles a climactic everything the wizard can throw at him. Production values, as might be expected, are little short of superlative with our hero besieged by crowds of alternately cheering and jeering throngs and the lighting changing colors to match the loot of Aladdin's cave.
Voices: Jack Mercer (Popeye), Margie Hines (Olive Oyl), Carl "Mike" Meyer (the wizard), a Lew Lahr imitator (the genie).
Director: DAVE FLEISCHER. Screenplay: Jack Mercer, Dan Gordon, Cal Howard, Tedd Pierce, Isidore Sparber. Adapted from a tale in The Arabian Nights. Popeye and Olive Oyl based on characters created by Elzie Segar. Photographed in Color by Technicolor by Charles Schettler. Head animator: David Tendlar. Animators: Nicholas Tafuri, William Sturm, Reuben Grossman. Music: Sammy Timberg. Song, "What Can I Do For You?" (Mercer) by Sammy Timberg (music and lyrics). Producer: Max Fleischer.
Copyright 7 April 1939 by Paramount Pictures, Inc. U.S. release: 7 April 1939. 2 reels. 22 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Olive Oyl, a scriptwriter at Surprise Studios, conceives the idea of starring herself and Popeye in a reprise of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.
COMMENT: The third and final of the Fleischer/Popeye 2-reel Technicolor specials, this is my favorite, despite the fact that Wimpy and Bluto don't figure in this one at all. Their absence is more than compensated by a deliciously comic genie and a really sold-out wicked wizard. The pace is so fast, you really have to see the movie two or three times to enjoy all the quips, but even a first time viewing proves a dazzling visual experience as Popeye battles a climactic everything the wizard can throw at him. Production values, as might be expected, are little short of superlative with our hero besieged by crowds of alternately cheering and jeering throngs and the lighting changing colors to match the loot of Aladdin's cave.